Thursday, August 02, 2007

Scott Goodale names assistant coach

John Leonardis, the head coach at The Peddie School, Hights-town, Mercer County, has been hired as a full-time assistant wrestling coach at Rutgers Uni-versity, new Scarlet Knights' head coach Scott Goodale an-nounced yesterday.

A former wrestler at both Le-high University in Bethlehem, Pa. and Blair Academy in Blairstown, Warren County, Leonardis will coach the upper-weights, Goodale said.

"He's someone who brings a lot of intensity and will get the best of our wrestlers both on the mat and in the classroom,'' said Goodale, the former Jack-son Memorial head coach who was hired as Rutgers' head coach this past Tuesday.

"He's got great New Jersey ties, which is the whole theme of the things we're trying to do, and technique-wise, he's one of the best around. "He will give the upperweights somebody to work with, which they really haven't had in the past.''

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